In ancient Greek stories, the son of the inventor Daedalus, who made wings fastened together with wax for himself and Icarus so that they could escape from the island of Crete by flying. But Icarus flew too close to the sun, so that the wax melted, and he fell and died.

Still the focus history about about Icarus down, i like the Deadalus perform...maybe Deadalus was a good architecture or engineer in your period. Daedalus, a talented and remarkable Athenian craftsman, built the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretan bull. Minos imprisoned Daedalus himself in the labyrinth because he gave Minos' daughter, Ariadne, a clew in order to help Theseus, the enemy of Minos, to survive the Labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur. Daedalus fashioned two pairs of wings out of wax and feathers for himself and his son. Daedalus tried his wings first, but before taking off from the island, warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea, but to follow his path of flight. Overcome by the giddiness that flying lent him, Icarus soared through the sky curiously, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted the wax. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms, and so Icarus fell into the sea in the area which today bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos.
In this history, we have to reflexion about our vanity, curiosity, and mainly the respect our limits and listen good advices!

No matter what challenges or encounters you face, you will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, and that is this, to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family, and the people around you.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn’t simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it’s a story about who you want to be. It's a resume that doesn't just tell a story about what you want to accomplish but why. A story that’s not just a collection of titles, and positions, but a story that’s really about your purpose. When you inevitably stumble and find yourself stuck in a hole, that is the story that will get you out. What is your true calling? What is your dharma? What is your purpose?

It doesn’t matter how far you might rise, at some point you are bound to stumble. If you are constantly doing what we do, raising the bar, pushing yourself higher, the law of averages, not to mention the Myth of Icarus, predicts that you will at some point fall. When you do, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. When you are down there in the hole, it looks like failure, it’s really okay to feel bad for a little while. Give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost, but then learn from every mistake. Every encounter and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you to be more of who you are.

I have done over 35,000 interviews in my career and as soon as that camera shuts off everyone always turns to me and inevitably in their own way asks this question "Was that okay?" I heard it from President Bush, I heard it from President Obama. I've heard it from heroes and from housewives. I've heard it from victims and perpetrators of crimes. Even Beyoncé whispered ‘Was that okay?’—because that’s what everyone wants to know: Was that okay? Did you hear me? Did what I say mean anything to you?

Life is like a story, we are our own writters. How we act will directly cause the quality of the story. If we will be always strong enough to face everything, we will be strong enough to control everything. I like this.

After reading the speech, I wanted to know more about the speaker Oprah. So, I searched google.
Oprah Gail Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011.
The speech remind me that failure is only the begin of the something new.

It's easy to say but difficult to do.
In my company, there is huge projects from different PM. But it seems that they always missed something they must carry out. At last, the project was always delayed and delayed.

Identify project objectives
Create a time plan
• What needs to be done
• Who is assigned to do it
• Clearly states the deadline
Effective communication
• Daily report or weekly report.
• Check the process status.
• Sometimes, meeting for quetions which are not prepared. modify the time paln.

yes, i agree with it. especially the project is very big and related many departments, creat a time plan and effective communication are the two significant steps, we know cooperation is the basis to success for the project term.

That's a good idea to deal with the projects. But now they don't know what's their objectives before they create a project in many companies. They even don't who should lead the project and can't get the support from management. So in this situation, most projects will be failed.